Property description
A beautiful character home boasting two reception rooms and a lovely bathroom with roll top bath and many original features and high ceilings throughout, situated in a convenient location in Pulborough village, with shops and a mainline station nearby with direct routes into London.
ACCOMMODATION * Entrance hall * Sitting room * Dining room * Kitchen/breakfast room * Principal bedroom * Two further bedrooms * Family bathroom * Front and rear gardens * Further garden with shed and parking for four vehicles * Potential for extension and improvements * EPC rating D *
SITUATION Pulborough is a large village on the northern bank of the River Arun with a good variety of local shops including butchers, hairdressers, a florist, hairdressers, a tea shop, public library, dentists, a Primary Health Care Centre, a Tesco store and Sainsbury's. The village has a primary school (St Mary's) and The Weald secondary school is at Billingshurst. There are also three churches, several pubs and a hotel.
There are plenty of country walks in the local area especially over the renowned Wild Brooks to the RSPB centre at Wiggonholt. There is a thriving range of sports and social events including football, cricket, rugby and bowls clubs. The mainline railway station at Pulborough is on the Arun Valley line to London (via Gatwick), Chichester and the South Coast. There are good links to the national road network as the A29 and A283 cross at Pulborough. The larger centres of Storrington and Billingshurst are approximately 5 miles distant, with Horsham some 13 miles, Chichester 15 miles and Guildford 23 miles away.
DESCRIPTION This handsome property was built approximately 100 years ago and retains many of its original features. Upon entering, the high ceilings and pictures rails help to set off the feature fireplaces and large sash windows which all help to create a light and airy home.
The accommodation comprises an attractive glazed panel front door to the entrance hall with strip wood floor and an under stairs cupboard, doors from here lead to the sitting room, dining room and kitchen come breakfast room. The sitting room benefits from a box bay with sash windows and a cast iron open fire. The dining room is currently being utilised as a play room has a built in storage cupboard. Finally downstairs the kitchen, which is large enough to have a table and chairs, is dual aspect and overlooks the patio and garden. It is well presented with a butler sink and strip wood work surface in good keeping with the character of the property.
To the first floor the accommodation continues with a spacious principal bedroom with attractive box bay window, built in wardrobes and cast iron fireplace. The two further bedrooms are at the rear of the property and have sash windows overlooking the garden and open fields beyond. Finally the family bathroom features a lovely Victorian style suite with a roll top bath.
The front garden is well maintained, mainly laid to lawn with a mature flower and shrub boarder and mature hedging proving screening from the road. A block paved pathway leads to the recessed entrance porch with an attractive tiled step. The rear garden has an area of lawn with stepping stones to the fenced off parking area. It is surrounded by a mature flower and shrub boarder. The area directly to the rear of the property has a shingle patio seating area and there is an outside storage cupboard inbuilt. From the back of the garden is a gate leading to a no through driveway which is used to serve the rear of these properties, beyond is a hard standing which provided private parking for up to four vehicles followed by an additional lawn area and timber shed.
AGENTS NOTE Other properties in the area have been granted loft conversions and we believe it could be suitable for an additional room subject to the usual planning consents. Also many properties in the road have garaging and should that be required we believe there is space to build one here (STP).
Property Features :
- CLOSE TO LOCAL AMENITIES AND MAINLINE TRAIN STATION
- THREE BEDROOMS
- SITTING ROOM
- DINING ROOM
- KITCHEN / BREAKFAST ROOM